PAULA MARTIN is the CEO of MartinTate, a management consulting and training company. She is the author or coauthor of six books. She works with project teams to help them improve performance and has been a consultant on issues related to improving organization performance for over ten years.

KAREN TATE, PMP, is the President of MartinTate and is a project management professional. She has over twenty years of project management experience and teaches project management to teams in organizations around the world.